U.K. Winter Power Supply Sufficient Without Nuclear, Grid Says

Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. has sufficient electricity
production margins to prevent power cuts this winter even should
the country’s nine nuclear plants be excluded, grid operator
National Grid Plc said.

Britain has enough security of supply to “live without”
its reactors in the period, Chris Train, National Grid’s network
operations director, said today at a conference in London.

The surplus of generating capacity to electricity demand is
about 14 percent for the six-month period from October, and will
decline to 4 percent by the winter of 2015 to 2016, according to
a report published today by U.K. regulator Ofgem.